James Joyce Quotes, Thoughts and images
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
Shut your eyes and see.
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
Fall if you will, but rise you must.
Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.
People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.
Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies.
Love loves to love love.
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
Let my country die for me.
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
Children must be educated by love, not punishment.
I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.
People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.
Thought is the thought of thought.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. The longest way round is the shortest way home.
To learn one must be humble. But life is a great teacher.
An Irishman needs three things: silence, cunning, and exile.
Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!
Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
There's many a true word spoken in jest.
Life is too short to read a bad book.
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
I am proud to be an emotionalist.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.
As I am. As I am. All or not at all.
and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.